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Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Gary Westfahl & George Slusser

First published 1999
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Erin Kirk New
Pages xiii+223
ISBN 0820321443

First printing as per full number line.
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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Infant Joys: The Pleasure of Disempowerment in Fantasy and Science Fiction Eric S. Rabkin Essay
20 The Humpty Dumpty Effect, or Was the Old Egg Really All It Was Cracked Up to Be: Context and Coming of Age in Science Fiction and Fantasy Frances Deutsch Louis Essay
29 Narrative Ues of Little Jewish Girls in Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories: Mediating Between Civilization and Its Own Savagery Susan Kray Essay
48 The Triumph of Teen-Prop: Terminator II and the End of History Gary Kern Essay
73 The Forever Child: Ender's Game and the Mythic Universe of Science Fiction George Slusser Essay
91 The Child as Alien Joseph D. Miller Essay
100 Baby's Newt Step: Überkinder and the Burden of the Future Howard V. Hendrix Essay
111 E.T.as a Fairy Tale Andrew Gordon Essay
131 Child Vision in the Fantasy of George MacDonald Gay Barton Essay
142 If Not Today, Then Tomorrow: Fact, Faith, and Fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Autobiographical Writings Alida Allison Essay
150 A Real-World Source for the "Little People": A Comparison of Fairies to Individuals with Williams Syndrome Howard M. Lenhoff Essay
161 Coming of Age in Fantasyland: The Self-Parenting Child in Walt Disney Animated Films Lynne Lundquist & Gary Westfahl Essay
171 Nasty Beings, Feminine Longing, and Mourning the Mother in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's The Witching Hour Stephanie Barbé Hammer Essay
185 Unsealing Sense in The Turn of the Screw Susan J. Navarette Essay
200 Getting Things in the Right Order: Stephen King's The Shining, The Stand, and It Bud Foote Essay
ix Return to Innocence Gary Westfahl Essay